On behalf of the staff of the Dublin Region Homeless Executive, the Statutory Management Group and the Joint Dublin Homeless Consultative Forum, we would like to thank you and acknowledge all the hard work done this year, particularly by frontline staff in the response to homelessness in the Dublin region. We would encourage you to share our film, which includes core contact information for the services that are in place for persons who are rough sleeping and / or homeless. The film also highlights some of the achievements that have been made in 2015, as we progress persons out of homelessness and into their own homes.

During November to April, we put in place our Cold Weather Initiative, in order to provide a humanitarian response to persons, who may be sleeping rough. This initiative provides dedicated additional beds to the existing number of beds available on a nightly basis in the Dublin region.

Applications are now being invited from staff members, who hold a current management role in the homeless services sector for the new Effective Management in Homeless Services Dublin City University accredited and DRHE recommended best practice module commencing in DCU’s School of Nursing and Human Sciences in February 2016.

For the 91st continuous year the Knights of St Columbanus are hosting the annual Christmas Day Dinner for the poor and homeless held on Christmas day morning in the RDS, Ballsbridge, Anglesea Road Entrance

The Dublin Region Homeless Executive is responsible for providing support and services to the Dublin Joint Homelessness Consultative Forum and the Statutory Management Group via Dublin City Council, as the lead statutory local authority.

It adopts a shared service approach across South Dublin County Council, Fingal County Council and Dún Laoghaire- Rathdown County Council.